Thursday, May 6, 2010

#1 Album Spotlight


This week's spotlight falls to this month in 1984. The Los Angeles Summer Olympics were just a few weeks away so everyone was feeling good and ready for summer. To prove how easy going things were the #1 Album in the country was the soundtrack to the movie"Footloose" starring Kevin Bacon.

The album had reached the top spot April 21st, knocking the now legendary "Thiller" album by Michael Jackson out of #1, where it had been since the beginning of the year.

Four of the albums singles were hits and 2 of which reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins and "Lets Hear it for the Boy" by Denice Williams.
The other hits were a #7 song "Almost Paradise" by Mike Reno & Ann Wilson, and a song by Bonnie Tyler called "Holding Out for a Hero" which was #2 smash in the UK.
The album spent 10 weeks at #1 before giving way to Huey Lewis and the News "Sports"



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